Letters

To the Editor: It is ridiculous of course for the commonwealth to require that justice be administered in courthouses and courtrooms that are inefficient, unpleasant and otherwise unsuitable. It is also ridiculous for the commonwealth to require that judges work ...

To the Editor: I am writing to comment on statements made by the governor’s counsel, Daniel B. Winslow, in the Lawrence Tribune on Nov. 22 regarding the current system of representing indigent defendants and the recent crisis of attorneys refusing ...

The following letter was sent to Christine Burak, secretary of the Rules Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court. A copy of the letter was submitted to Lawyers Weekly for publication. Dear Ms. Burak: The Massachusetts Bar Association has requested that ...

To the Editor: An item in your Nov. 24 Hearsay column (“The Litigation Bowl”) references the lawsuit recently filed by Boston College against the Big East Conference in the Business Litigation Court. As co-counsel for the conference in that action, ...

To the Editor: The instantly famous decision of the Supreme Judicial Court in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, barring discrimination against same-sex marriages, has set off a political clamor of Richter Scale proportions, but the fact remains that in ...

To the Editor: I am delighted to announce that Senior Partners for Justice has just recruited its 100th member. Since our inception just over a year ago, we have provided pro bono representation to over 80 clients, who otherwise would ...

To the Editor: I enjoyed David Yas’ Court Jester column (“The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind,” Nov. 17) about the Bristol County district attorney’s misuse of an out-of-context snippet from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” in his brief in ...

To the Editor: At the beginning of her opinion declaring homosexual marriage to be a state constitutional right, Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall notes that there is deep-seated division over “religious, moral, and ethical convictions” regarding marriage ...

To the Editor: I write to supplement J. Drew Segadelli’s letter to the editor about the Plymouth district attorney’s payment of defense counsel’s fees under Rule 15(d) of the Rules of Criminal Procedure (“Plymouth DA Pays Three Years Later,” Nov. ...

To the Editor: I am writing to appeal to the attorneys across the state to join the constables of Massachusetts to have G.L.c. 46, Sect. 20 — which was signed into law on July 31 — repealed or amended. The ...